Well, this is embarrassing. I've been all wrapped up in the stresses of finding a reliable job and ways to pay rent and buy groceries that I've neglected any sort of creative ambition and replaced it with mindless application-filling and boring resume-building. When I wasn't searching for a job, I was worrying about searching for a job, which, turns out, is a pretty lame living strategy after a couple of months. When finding a desk job in the Bay Area proved well nigh impossible, I gritted my teeth, glared at my shiny new college degree, and began applying for the same jobs I applied for when I was a 16-year-old high school student with no experience or degrees of any kind. Retail stores, restaurants, coffee shops, theaters. Nothing is quite as humbling as having to answer dozens of questions like "Would your friends say that you are a reliable person?" on an online application to Old Navy. In the end, I've been hired at Peet's to be a barista, the same position I worked at Starbucks before I went to college. There's a big part of me that wants to be bitter towards the current state of the economy and angry at Berkeley for not telling me that finding a job was going to be a pain when I graduated. But there's another part of me that is slowly, and somewhat begrudgingly, understanding that this time in my life is just not going to be focused on making a boat-load of money or gaining experience in an architectural office. Instead, I hope these next few months or years to be filled with photography and drawing and painting and cooking and other things that I love because once I have to buckle down and start a career, I just might not have the time or creative willpower for those things anymore. So when I start to feel bitter about not getting that awesome position as an architectural intern or online content manager, I just have to remind myself that I am accomplishing other life goals right now and I am so lucky to have an income and lovely people who support and care for me. In other news that actually pertains to the picture, Joe and I got another cat. When Joe moved to the Bay Area, he left Dash, our Maine Coon, in San Diego in the care of his mother. Joe's mother, not Dash's mother. So with his constant desire to care for something other than himself, Joe couldn't resist a craigslist ad for a "Coon Kitten with a 1-inch tail." Probably more photos of Boone to follow, since he's so dang photogenic.

I got Tagged. Im riding the bandwagon. Here are 16 random things about me. 1. I was born on October 08, 1987. Yes, i am 21. People mistook me to be somewhere in mid 20s. Yes, I look old but that does not bother me at all. hihi. 2. I believe I am Holden Caulfield. Chrissake... 3. I can write but i hate how tedious it is to make an entry. I like to read but i always end up reading an online synopsis. I prefer essays than novels. I prefer opinions than stories... 4. Deviantart.com opened my eyes in photography. 5. I bought my 350d when i was a junior stud in college while working my ass out in a BPO. 6. My 350d's name is Clem. Clementine. I got that from the movie 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'. The role was played by Kate Winslet. I am Jim Carrey. hihi. 7. ...and that one is the best movie of all times. And yes, Dark Knight, as well. 8. I paint and I draw. 9. I dig Beatles' songs. But I don't have a single music of them on my PSP. Thanks to youtube. 10. ...I have a number of urbandub's. And E-head's. 11. I am currently listening to Jack Johnson's hits. 12. I am lactose intolerant. So don't expect me to like milk. 13. I always have a hard time remembering birth dates. And i am never good with names. So pardon me... Who are you again? 14. Someday, i will pursue a degree in fine arts. Someday. Sorry ma pa, Law school does not really work for me. well, at least for now. 15. And Australia is the place to be for that. or Baguio. 16. Truth is, nobody really tagged me. hihi. Nah, i am just bored. Enjoy the week, my friends. I think i won't. hihi. pic: Who took this one?